Dear parents/caregivers of Room 18

 

Your child is celebrating the end of Term 4’s topic study by talking in front of the class about their family and culture.

 

When -        Monday 1st December 2014: 1.00pm - 2.30pm

What -        Term 4 Topic Presentation

Where -       Room 18

 

Please support your child at home by encouraging them to talk about the following areas:

Country of my family heritage.

Culture most identified with my family.

Customs important to my family.

Festivals specific to my family culture.

Special food my family eats.

 

We would like you to join your child on this special occasion. 

 

Kind Regards

Betsy Rego

Jocelyn Hair​​

There goes our running club - we run every morning to let our hearts pump with the freshness of the morning. Oh what fun!

We in Room 18 proudly presented our puppet theatre performance and spoke about our family heritage to Room 12.

Family Night - Singing, dancing, raffles, ice lollies, BBQ and relaxing under the blue sky, our families had a lovely evening. Thank you to all who joined us.

Our Fantastic Celebration of Maori Evening :

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy watching some of our special moments with friends and family in term 4:

Spring fair:

Room 18 enjoyed helping Mark our Caretaker to make their sandpit. With the leadership of Jimmy they collected rocks and filled the sides of the sandpit.

Maori Whanau Celebration of Success Evening Thursday 20th Nov. We are proud to celebrate the success  of our Maori children the values they portray in their school life at Arahoe School. It was a lovely evening.

Family Night

Family Night Tues 25th November

Family Night is an annual Arahoe School event which normally takes place in December. This year, however, it is scheduled for Tuesday evening the 25th November due to our early finish on the 10th December. This is a great night for our families and whanau, filled with fun, food and entertainment by the children and teacher/parent band. We also enjoy a surprise visitor making his appearance on the night. This year our PSG have decided to bring his visit forward for the sake of our Ara Teina children. The evening starts at 5.00pm and will end at approximately 7.30pm-7.45pm. There will be food and drink on sale so bring your money and a blanket. Relax on the grass and be entertained by our very talented children. This night is a great way to celebrate another busy year at Arahoe.

Hands Alive Puppet Theatre Visit for Ara Teina

To support our learning we will be having Christine Fuller from ‘Hands Alive Puppet Theatre’ visit us on Friday 21 November to put on two puppet shows, one for the Year 0-1 students and another for the Year 2 children. She will be using a variety puppets to bring some well-known stories to life. We are excited to give Ara Teina children the opportunity to see a puppeteer in action. We hope that the show will be inspirational. The cost for the show is: $2.50 for non-Loyalty Cardholders or $2 for those who have a Loyalty Card. Payment can be made directly to your child’s teacher(s). Loyalty Card holders, please include your Loyalty Card number with your payment. If you have any queries, please talk to your child’s classroom teacher(s).

Parent Teacher Interviews Week 9

Parent-Teacher Discussions

Our next parent-teacher discussions are being held on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th December.  Bookings for these discussion will open on the 1st December and can be booked at http://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/code.  The code is BDW2P.

Swimming!

Today Room 18 went for our first swimming session and what a blast we had! We learnt how to enter the pool, move around the outside and exit using the ladder safely. 

Just a reminder that our swimming sessions are every Friday from 1:15-1:45. If you are available to help then please come along and let us know in the morning. 

Because the days are quite changeable please send along a jumper just in case! Your child will also need a pair of swimming togs (named), a towel (named), a named bag, swimming cap (optional) and goggles (also optional). 

A huge thank you to Mrs Rogerson for coming along and helping us today!

Dear Parents,

Room 18 will be having swimming every friday:

Please send with your child the following every Friday:

Swimming togs
Towel
A strong plastic bag

Thankyou,

Mrs. Rego and Mrs. Simon

30 October 2014

Dear parents and caregivers,

The over-arching theme for Ara Teina students this year is ‘Green,’ in which we have covered several aspects of living sustainability. During Term 4 we continue the theme with a focus on looking at how different ethnicities sustain their culture and identity in their everyday lives. One way in which the children are exploring this is by creating puppets, and performing personalised puppet shows based on their own family cultures. Puppets are used universally by both children and adults to tell stories, to entertain and to convey messages. Ara Teina teachers hope that by giving children opportunities to explore their own identity through the medium of puppetry, it will help foster an appreciation for their own culture as well as that of others.

To support our learning we will be having Christine Fuller from ‘Hands Alive Puppet Theatre’ visit us on Friday 21 November to put on two puppet shows, one for the Year 0-1 students and another for the Year 2 children. She will be using a variety puppets to bring some well-known stories to life. We are excited to give Ara Teina children the opportunity to see a puppeteer in action. We hope that the show will be inspirational.

The cost for the show is:

·         $2.50 for non-Loyalty Card holders

·         $2 for those who have a Loyalty Card.

Payment can be made directly to your child’s teacher(s). Loyalty Card holders, please include your Loyalty Card number with your payment.

If you have queries, please talk to your child’s classroom teacher(s).

Kind regards,

Kirsten Bland

Classroom teacher,

Arahoe School